Word: amenability
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...eerie, agonized Creed: behind the free-form obbligato of Paul Horn's alto sax, the eight members of a chorus autonomously sing, at their own pace and in their own key, the words of the Nicene Creed, dynamically ascending in volume with each phrase. By the final "amen," the shouting cacophony shatters the ear, yet conveys a sense that this too-familiar proclamation of faith is being heard for the first time...
...travel. Usually ancient pickup trucks fitted out with wooden roofs and benches, they hide their precarious mechanical condition under garishly painted hoods. Their cabs often bear a motto full of hope ("God Never Sleeps"), African fatalism ("No Condition Is Permanent"), challenge ("Let Me Try Again"), or simple pious appeal ("Amen...
...More Amens. The New Testament translation was undertaken in 1956 by a team of Catholic Biblical scholars under the sponsorship of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, which directs the religious training of Catholic children outside parochial schools. Since the translators followed the original Greek rather than the Latin Vulgate, they had to sacrifice some sonorous phrases familiar to Catholic ears from the Douay version and from a prewar Confraternity New Testament that was based on the Vulgate. Instead of "Amen, amen, I say to you," Jesus' teaching is prefaced by "I solemnly assure...
...poems by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold, scored for a small orchestra and soprano. In each poem an animal characterizes himself in a prayer ending with "Ainsi soit-il." Yannatos does not portray the animals, but the attitudes they represent. The animals' feelings are summarized by their way of saying amen, and the score provides the interpretation which the printed page leaves to the reader. For instance, the cat, aided by a marvellously meowing orchestra, says amen in smug anticipation of God's curse on the race of dogs...
...Prince and in the provinces. Give us this day our new Haiti and never forgive the trespasses of the enemies of the Fatherland, who spit every day on our Country. Let them succumb to temptation and under the weight of their own venom. Deliver them not from any evil. Amen...